On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Michael Red <[email protected]> wrote:
> Woah, but did anyone look at the fact that, compared to a forum, immensely > few people will join a mailing list unless they're VERY interested in it? > I don't think we manage a post a day on average over a month for this > mailing list, true. But by comparison, a forum would be much > more...newbie-friendly, so to speak. I can't speak for any others, but I had > to force myself to join the mailing list, because no forum was available. > This is sufficient, sure. > See, it may be a generational thing, or something else, but I personally find forums to be a pain in the neck, by comparison to a mailing list. This lands neatly in my gmail, and gets filtered into its own directory, complete with importance tagging. By contrast, I would have to manually navigate to a forum and check it each day - which is not going to happen, given my time commitments elsewhere. It is the difference between a push-based event system, versus manual polling, if you will. Along the lines of suggestions, I think if we make a forum, it shouldn't be > the grand central station every library tries to make theirs become. My > opinion is that we should have a maximum of 3 sub-forums. One for > announcements, one for developmental chatter (suggestions, ideas, preferably > no issues since we have a bug tracker, and possibly dev chat for upcoming > changes), one for posting projects made in pyglet. > My feelings on your 3 sub-forums are respectively: - Any news channel where the user has to manually check for updates is a bad way to do announcements: you want push notifications, not pull. RSS feeds from an announcements forum isn't a terrible way to accomplish this, but the mailing list already does push notifications very well. - My experience is that the majority of programmers are very comfortable with mailing lists, they tend to have limited time, and communicate from a variety of devices (for example, my iPhone) where forums software is not easily accessible. - A projects-with-pyglet forum is a good idea, but it doesn't go far enough. We need more visibility, like a gallery of (moderated) featured images directly on the front page - you don't want to make potential contributors have to mine down 3 levels of forum and trawl through the dross, just to find interesting projects that use pyglet. In case it isn't clear, I am not trying to be discouraging. If someone wants to set up and manage forums, by all means go for it! I just have reservations as to how useful it will be - and I certainly won't be using it myself. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math & CS Department http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
